Nietzsche and the Dionysian : : a compulsion to ethics / / by Peter Durno Murray.

• Superior document: Value Inquiry Book Series ; Volume 320
• VerfasserIn: Murray, Peter Durno,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill-Rodopi,, [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Value inquiry book series ; Volume 320.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (377 pages).

Nietzsche and the Dionysian argues that the shuddering mania of the affect associated with Dionysus in Nietzsche’s early work runs as a thread through his thought and is linked to an originary interruption of self-consciousness articulated by the philosophical companion. In this capacity, the companion can be considered a ‘mask of Dionysus’, or one who assumes the singular role of the transmitter of the most valuable affirmative affect and initiates a compulsion to respond which incorporates the otherness of the companion. In the context of such engagements, Nietzsche envisages ‘Dionysian’ or divine ‘madness’ within an optics of life, through which an affirmative ethics can be thought. The ethical response to the philosophical companion requires an affirmation of the plurality of life, formulated in the imperatives to be ‘true to the earth’ and ‘become who you are’. Such an ethics, compelled by the Dionysian affect, grounds any future for humanity in the affirmation of the earth and life.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations of Works by Nietzsche -- Introduction -- The Dionysian as an Ethical Sense -- Creature and Creator -- The Way of the Wanderers -- The Weight of Affirmation -- The Possibility of Self-Overcoming -- Towards a Practical Ethics of the Earth and Life -- Working for the Future -- Epilogue -- Back Matter -- Bibliography -- Index.